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Opinion: Is the Tea Party Party Over?

FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe on the trajectory of the grassroots movement since 2010. Photo credit: Associated Press.

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... I ... chill Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... party has changed American politics were not talking about ... smaller government lower taxes any individual freedom ... but the movement backed candidates who can actually win elections ... I've got freedom works president and CEO Matt to be ... the author of a new book ... The titled don't hurt people don't take their stuff ... I'm that I was start with the tea party ... I didn't put up a couple slides IOUs issued the Heritage foundation's Jane demand ... in the first concerns ... tea party how people perceive in January twenty twelve ... twenty one percent were negative ... October twenty thirteen forty five percent ... what has changed what has gone wrong ... book is the preferred lead bidder of the states we don't always get a read when we choose candidates just like anybody else ... but part of the ... for the backlash is a factor working making a difference ... a lot of the trashing of the Tea Party Brand comes from partisans including the president ... to call this Names accuses of things we aren't ... and that's for the present leadership but it is a de centralized movement ... you don't always get a ride echo a beautiful pale okay beautiful chaos of site Disney vilification it's also candidates ... I'm not into another slide they should cement likes the Tea Party ... conservatives loving forty eight percent ... the monitor its thirty four percent liberals twelve percent ... Penney across the aisle ... can you get the left and center ... on your side but that we talk about issues at the greed talk about values and that's that's where wrote this book because a lot of the values of liberty ... our purpose and it's not about the tea party it's not about Democrats Republicans it's about citizens versus a government that has become ... to talk down to controlling of our allies that your well-known libertarian ... is the tea party I wholly composed of libertarians are they showing that the hat ... no I think it's it's it's a mashup are a just what the founding of America was a mashup of of libertarians and preachers and ... and and people on soap boxes of that's the same thing today but as Ronald Reagan said in nineteen seventy five ... the heart and soul of conservatism ... is libertarianism ... I think there's a lot of common values there about Liberty bought individual responsibility ... about limiting the size and scope of government that unites all of us even though we probably all disagree on something ... while is speaking of which ... some libertarians I'm thinking a brand called was probably ... the face of the movement today ... the isolationist night doesn't love America and two to be involved in the world ... that scene is extreme has been criticized by some on the right ... when you stand on issues like that in our top pick is isolationist and I would consider myself that either but I'm almost more like George Washington I think it was a pragmatic approach ... to not getting involved in every single dispute can you really ... mediate civil wars in Syria I don't think so ... and more importantly I'm not sure we can afford to be everything to everybody and that's why ... our economy in the national debt that's part of the national security equation ... while ran all very popular especially on college campuses ... I like his father before him ... Haqqani actually win an election though ... because these libertarian candidates and miserably in national contests in the past books of course with payouts when he ran against a GOP establishment pick in Kentucky that's what they asked about marker Rubio when used ... challenging Charlie Crist us with tales about Ted Cruz ... I think you can win an election in the new politics is more decentralize is not about money ... it's not about him from Washington DC jets down to a George to ... the spot whether or not to authentically represent these batteries and can build ... a machine ... and communicate first practical political skills there but I don't think ... that just because you believe in something that you can't when within way of Republican wave in twenty ten ... twenty twelve really fell short of expectations on the rate ... of the lessons from that election year in the new plan in twenty fourteen ... will putting aside the IRS oppression of mom and pop tea party groups and the impact that the EIA estimates cost is five eight million votes ... I think the lessons in twenty sixteen in twenty fourteen ... are you get a good candidates ... candidates ... know the practical skills of of of political organization ... but being authentic matters ... and if you look of the field in twenty sixteen ... all of those guys are more compelling than anyone I saw in twenty twelve ... and eight dollars there today in part because of the tea party ... okay ... freedom works president Matt to be a stinky so much for joining us ...